The College grants credit for College Entrance Examination Board Advanced Placement (AP) results.

One to two course credits will be granted for an Advanced Placement exam score of 4 or 5 upon the completion of a second course in the department with a grade of B- or better. The exceptions are in Mathematics and Modern and Ancient languages where the department may grant or deny AP credit based on proficiency exam performance and may waive the additional course requirement.

Credit for an AP exam will not be granted when the student takes a comparable course that covers the same material. College placement examination results will take precedence over AP credit. (For example: AP credit will be forfeited, if by College placement examination, the student is required to take a beginning course.) In all cases, the amount of credit awarded will be determined by the appropriate department.

This policy also applies to the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) credit.

Credit may also be granted for Wabash designed and administered examinations. Faculty members administering Wabash designed examinations have the option to authorize credit with or without a grade.

AP Exam Equivalencies

Exam Title

Score

Equivalency

Credit

Requirement

Calculus AB

4

MAT 111

1

B- or better in MAT 112

Calculus AB

5

MAT 111

1

None

Calculus BC

4,5

MAT 111,112

2

None

English Lang/Comp

4,5

ENGL 98

1

B- or better in 200 level ENG Language course

English Lit/Comp

4,5

ENGL 99

1

B- or better in 200 level ENG Literature course

French Language

4,5

FRE 102

1

B- or better in FRE 201 based on placement

French Language

4,5

FRE 201

1

B- or better in FRE 202/301 based on placement

German Language

4,5

GER 102

1

B- or better in GER 201 based on placement

German Language

4,5

GER 201

1

B- or better in GER 202/301based on placement

Spanish Language

4,5

SPA 102

1

B- or better in SPA 201 based on placement

Spanish Language

4,5

SPA 201

1

B- or better in SPA 202/301 based on placement

Statistics

5

MAT 103,104

½, ½

None

U. S. History

4,5

HIS 241 or 242

1

B- or better in 200 or 300 level U. S. History course

European History

4,5

HIS 231 or 232

1

B- or better in 200 or 300 level European

History course

World History

4,5

HIS 101 or 102

1

B- or better in 200 or 300 level World

History course

Gov/Pol Sci U. S.

4,5

PSC 111

1

B- or better in 300 level U. S. PSC course

Gov/Pol Sci Comparative

4,5

PSC 122

1

B- or better in 300 level Comparative PSC course

Psychology

4,5

PSY 101

1

B- or better in 200 level PSY course

Music Theory

4,5

MUS 201

1

None

Please contact the Registrar’s Office at 765-361-6245 for questions about exams not listed.

Note: If a student takes a 200 or 300-level U.S. history course, he should receive credit for whichever half of the U.S. history survey he did not take at Wabash. For example, if a student took HIS 241 at Wabash College and completed it successfully, he would receive credit for HIS 242. The same rule would apply to European and World history (students get credit in either 231 or 232; 101 or 102). A student can receive no more than two Wabash history credits as a result of his AP credits (even if he received 4s or 5s on all three AP history exams). If a student takes BOTH halves of any history survey at Wabash, he forfeits the right to receive a Wabash history course as AP credit. For example, if he takes HIS 241 and HIS 242 he cannot receive an AP credit in U.S. History.

AP credits earned in Biology, Chemistry, or Physics will NOT fulfill the college laboratory science distribution requirement.